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The Latest Google Update Gave Us PageRank Love - Check Your Google PageRank Now!
Written by Kila Morton   
Thursday, 10 January 2008

ImageGot PageRank? Google's last update, many moons ago, hit a lot of people hard. A few days ago Google updated their system again and gave a lot of people PageRank love! Many of you may have noticed the PageRank change. Google's system update has resulted in an increase in PageRank for many sites - PureBlogic.com included! Overnight I went from zero to two in the PageRank garden of websites. What does this mean exactly? It means that a few people may have liked what I had to say in the past. Some of those people linked to PureBlogic.com and now Google recognizes me as a 2 out of 10.

Now what is PageRank exactly and why should you care about it? I’m going to quote Google’s very own description for you.

Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've networked together to create a superfast search engine.
The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to play a central role in many of our web search tools.

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance.

Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.




So to sum up all the fancy words, Google uses PageRank as a determination of the relevancy or importance of particular pages on your site. Please understand, this does not apply to your entire site! You could have five pages on your site all with different PageRank.

Take a look at PureBlogic’s current page rank. I started this blog on November 29th,  2007 with no page rank. Now, one month and 12 days later on January 11th, 2008, I’m a 2. Thanks Google for looking out for the little guys and little girls. We appreciate it.


To check your PageRank you should install the Google Toolbar.
If you want to install the toolbar & FireFox at the same time, you can click here .
If you want to install the toolbar for use in another browser, you can click here.

 

Your PageRank changes as more people link to you and as you link to more people. That’s one of the reasons that social bookmarking and social networking sites that allow you to place links that come back to your site can be so valuable. If you were skipped in this round of updates, don’t be discouraged. You can always get link love from various places. Keep joining social networks and linking to your site and your PageRank will start moving up in no time - or at least on the next Google update!

 

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